Table 3.
Policy, prosecutions, and legal barriers to civil society organisations related to same-sex sexual acts and HIV testing history among men who have sex with men
| Total (8047) | Has ever tested for HIV among all study participants (n=5895)* | Has awareness of HIV positive status among those living with HIV (n=629)† | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/N (%) | OR (95% CI) | aOR‡ (95% CI) | n/N (%) | OR (95% CI) | aOR‡ (95% CI) | ||
| Policy related to consensual same-sex sexual acts | |||||||
| Not criminalised | 3161 (39·3%) | 2379/3156 (75·4%) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 102/263 (38·8%) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) |
| Criminalised | 4886 (60·7%) | 3516/4872 (72·2%) | 0·70 (0·27–1·78) | 0·76 (0·25–2·26) | 527/1317 (40·0%) | 0·65 (0·19–2·21) | 0·78 (0·19–3·22) |
| Prosecutions for consensual same-sex sexual acts | |||||||
| No | 4170 (51·8%) | 3034/4160 (72·9%) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 127/285 (33·0%) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) |
| Yes | 3877 (48·2%) | 2861/3868 (74·0%) | 0·91 (0·35–2·38) | 1·03 (0·34–3·18) | 502/1195 (42·0%) | 0·88 (0·25–3·03) | 1·72 (0·43–6·79) |
| Legal barriers to civil society organisations | |||||||
| No | 3286 (40·8%) | 2408/3278 (73·5%) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 106/338 (31·4%) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) |
| Yes | 4761 (59·2%) | 3487/4750 (73·4%) | 1·08 (0·42–2·77) | 1·66 (0·52–5·40) | 523/1242 (42·1%) | 1·61 (0·48–5·50) | 4·02 (1·27–12·76) |
*
Adjusted for age, education, sexual orientation, marital status, year of data collection, country level population prevalence among adults 15–49, recruitment seed, site, and clustered by country.